The second step was to download the Raspberry Pi imager. this puts Retro Pi (the arcade emulator) onto you SD card. You can download the imager at https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/
For the next step make sure your SD card is plugged into your computer. you will most likely need an adapter for it to plug in. |
Going back to the ROMS, after you have all the ROMS you could ever want installed, Grab your empty USB stick and plug it into the computer. DONT put your ROMS onto it yet. Make sure it is formatted to fat32. this will wipe it completely. then go into the empty usb drive and make a folder titled retropie (all lowercase no spaces) then after you make the folder eject the drive and plug it into your Raspberry Pi. The Pie is now writing files to your USB and this will take a few minutes, just be patient and wait
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after 5 minutes or so take your flash drive out and plug it back into your computer. inside the retropie folder you created, the will be 3 new folders. you only need to worry about the roms folder. inside it you will see a folder for every system retropie can emulate. here is where you put your downloaded roms into. go into the folder of the system you ROM playes on and copy paste the ROM file. (you will most likely need to unzip the file and take the program out of a folder) put in all your Roms and then eject your flash drive.
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Once your Flash drive and SD card are in, make sure you have a controller of some sort plugged in. this could be a controller, keyboard and mouse, or arcade buttons. turn on your pie and wait for it to boot up. when first turning in on, you will see a pop up saying you have a Game pad detected. follow the instruction to set up the controls.
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To start on the Cabinet section of the arcade, I wanted to design something for the marquee. i decided to go with a simplistic ARCADE sign that I 3d printed. for my C I made a Pacman. here are the 2 file designs I made. the Pacman will be printed in yellow so its being printed on a different printer
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